All Spiritual Blessings In Christ

all spiritual blessings in Christ. It begins in verse 3 with this
statement, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. When I read that, this is the
thought that came to my mind, what poor creatures we are. What poor creatures we are, who
have not the will, who have not the vocabulary, who have not
the understanding to praise the Lord as he is worthy to be praised.
David caught the message. He said in Psalm 135 verse 19,
Bless the Lord, O house of Israel. Bless the Lord, O house of Aaron.
Bless the Lord, O house of Levi. Bless the Lord, ye that fear
the Lord. Bless the Lord. Blessed be the Lord out of Zion,
those which dwell at Jerusalem. Praise the Lord. Let everything
that hath breath praise the Lord. Blessed be God. Well, there are
four reasons why I bless God today. Four reasons. First of
all, because He's God. I bless God because He's worthy
to be praised. He is God. O Lord my God, when
I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds Thy hand hath
made. I see the stars, I hear the rolling
thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. O Lord
my God, how great Thou art. then sings my soul." Infinite
mercy, infinite wisdom, infinite love, infinite power, infinite
holiness, infinite majesty. God's worthy to be praised. Bless
the Lord God, because He is God. Now the second reason we bless
God, not only because He's God, He's worthy to be praised, But
because, look at it, he's the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for
God so loved this world that he gave his own Son. Now, I was reading something
this week, and this was pointed out. I want you to listen to
it. Mr. Spurgeon said this, My friends,
never fall into the mistaken idea that the atoning sacrifice
of Jesus Christ was intended to make an angry God merciful,
a God of judgment and justice willing to be merciful. This
is not the truth. Are you listening? Never fall
into the mistaken idea that the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ
was intended to make an angry God merciful. This is not the
truth. Jesus Christ did not die to create
mercy, nor to create love in the heart of God. Christ died
to open the way for the exercise of that mercy and love which
was already in the heart of God. For God so loved that he gave. Herein is love, not that we love
God, but that he loved us and sent his Son. The death of Christ
is not the cause of God's love, it's the results of God's love.
The death of Jesus Christ is not the cause of God's love,
but the results of God's love. He came because God loved us. He gave himself for us because
God's merciful. He died for our sins because
God was gracious to the guilty. Praise God. because he is God. He's worthy to be praised. This
is the day the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad therein. He made it. And then we bless
God because he's the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now the
third reason. Blessed be the God, he's worthy
to be praised. Praise God from whom all blessings
flow. Praise God, all creatures here
below. Praise God. As we pray for faith
and as we pray for humility and as we pray for love, I think
we ought to pray to God Almighty to give us a heart of praise.
Teach us to praise the Lord. I think that's one of the areas
in which we are so lacking. The will, the vocabulary, the
understanding to praise God Almighty, to praise Him. And I don't mean
as a casual byword that you get in the habit of saying, well,
praise the Lord, well, praise the Lord. But I mean a genuine
heart's sincerity. Praise God, bless God, O my soul,
and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Because here's
the third reason. He hath blessed us. He's God,
He's the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and He hath blessed us. He hath blessed us. It's already
done. The gifts and calling of God
are without chain. God's already blessed us. Known
unto God are all his works from the beginning. He's already blessed
us. God said to Abraham, the land
is yours before you possess it. The land is yours before you
enter into it. God's already blessed us. He's
blessed us with all spiritual blessings. They're already ours.
Here's the scripture I want you to look at, 1 Corinthians 3.
Now, you may not have all the material blessings you think
you need or think you deserve. You may not have all the physical
blessings that you think you need or think you deserve. But
God hath blessed us already in Christ with all spiritual blessing. They're already mine. Now, that's
right. Look at 1 Corinthians 3. 1 Corinthians
3, verse 21. Therefore let no man glory in
me. Now, this is so important. Therefore,
let no man glory in men, for all things are yours, whether
Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death,
or things present, or things to come. All things are yours. They're yours. And you're Christ,
you belong to him, and he is God's. All things are yours.
God has already blessed us. He hath already blessed us with
all spiritual blessings. Turn, if you will, to Colossians
2. Here's another scripture that goes right along with that. Colossians
2, verse 9. For in Christ dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in Him. It's all yours. It's all yours. God hath blessed us. Bless God,
because he is God. Praise God, because he's the
Father, the Giver, the Sender of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
because he hath already blessed us. Now before Abraham entered
into Canaan, it was his. God had already given it to him.
He hadn't possessed the land, but it was his. Before Israel
entered into Canaan, it was theirs. God said, it's yours. And he
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing. In Christ, I am complete. I have all that God is and all
that God has. It's mine. It's mine. You are complete in him. Of God,
he's made unto you wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
Now back to our text. He hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings," now watch this, "...in heavenly places in Christ." Now
spiritual blessings are heavenly blessings. Spiritual blessings are heavenly.
They come from heaven, they lead to heaven, they are of a heavenly
nature, and they are enjoyed in heaven itself. They are heavenly
blessings. Now you can read the text one
of two ways. You can read it this way, blessed
be the God and Father, bless God because he's God, because
he's the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, because he's blessed
us with all spiritual blessings. And you can read it this way,
in heavenly places or in heavenly things, either way, and you'll
be equally correct. For this reason, we enjoy heavenly
things. A new nature is a heavenly thing.
A new heart is a heavenly thing. The love of God shed abroad in
our hearts is a heavenly thing. The joy of Christ is a heavenly
thing. The peace and rest which we have
in Christ is a heavenly thing. The Holy Spirit is a heavenly
spirit. So all these are heavenly things.
But also it says heavenly places. Heaven and all its inheritance
is already ours. Now watch this. Christ Jesus,
our representative, has entered heaven and taken possession of
it for us. He's already entered heaven,
and he's there in our name as our surety, taking possession
of eternal glory. So all this is yours, God said. Bless God. Praise God. Praise God, because He is God. Praise God, who's the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Praise God, who hath blessed
us, already blessed us. We may be poor physically, we
may be poor materially, but we're not poor spiritually. We have
been blessed with all spiritual blessing in heavenly things,
in things that pertain to heaven. not in things that pertain to
this earth. We may have some days ahead that we'll be trying. We may have some days of poverty. We may have some days of judgment
and sickness and great burden, but we have an inheritance reserved. It's already purchased, it's
already given, it's already provided, it's reserved in heaven. All
spiritual blessings are yours. Christ has already entered heaven
and taken possession of that place. He said, I go to prepare
a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place, I will come
again and receive you. I am the richest person in the
universe, because all spiritual blessings are already mine. God
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly things,
in spiritual things, in heavenly places. They are yours. Now here's
where we want to camp a while, this next two words. This is
really my whole message revolves around these next two words.
He hath blessed us, God hath given us all spiritual blessing. Do you realize the value of that?
I tell you, I don't have any rich kin, folks. But suppose,
suppose this fellow Howard Hughes had been my uncle. And they had
found a will, and somebody came and notified me that in that
will, Howard Hughes had left me fabulously wealthy, independently
fabulously wealthy. I don't imagine I'd take it too
calmly. I imagine my heart would pitter-patter just a little bit,
don't you? I imagine the hair on the back of my neck would
stand up a little bit. I imagine I'd get pretty excited.
And yet these things that Howard Hughes left, They didn't do him
any good. They didn't add to his joy. They
didn't give him health. They didn't give him the things
that the person needs. He died a miserable, wretched,
sick, vile, forsaken, lonely creature with all of the material,
what we call—and they're not really blessings, are they?—material
things that this world provides. Notice here from God himself,
which says that God who created all things and he's worthy to
be blessed God who's the father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
he's worthy to be blessed, but he has blessed me with all spiritual
blessing heavenly things Heavenly things, not these things that
fade away and these things that bring more misery than they do
comforts, but heavenly things. He hath blessed me with all spiritual
blessings that are already mine. The inheritance is there, waiting
for me. All right, watch this next two
words. In Christ. In Christ. He hath blessed us
with all spiritual blessings, heavenly things, heavenly places,
in Christ. It's not in ourselves that these
blessings are vested. It's not in the church in which
they're vested. It's not in the law. It's not in works. It's
in Christ. We have these spiritual blessings
because of one thing, our union with Christ. Just as we can do
nothing without him, we can possess nothing without him. He is the
trustee, he is holding the inheritance. It's in him and it's ours because
we're in him. Now that's so, it's in Christ.
I want you to see, as I go through this message this morning, how
many times in Christ is used, in Christ. Bless God. the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us, who hath bestowed
upon us all that heaven can bestow upon a creature, all spiritual
blessings, all of them, in heavenly places, but he hath bestowed
it upon us in Christ. And it's not in ourselves that
these treasures and blessings are vested. We have them because
of our union with him. You don't have them because you
made a profession of religion. You don't have them because you're
in the right church, or the right doctrine, or the right denomination,
or the right laws and rules and regulation. You have these blessings
because you're in Christ. That's the reason you have them. And that old primitive Baptist
hymnal is a hymn that goes like this, in Christ. The Father's
sovereign love was freely to me given. In Christ the Father's
righteous grace secured my home in heaven. In Christ I have all
my soul desires. He is my supreme delight. In
Christ all that the Father requires to turn my darkness into light.
In Christ the source of all my bliss. He's my Savior, my brother,
my friend, my wisdom and my righteousness on Him alone. My soul depends
in Christ. That's where it is. Now let's
see about four or five things, and I won't weary you, try to,
too much, but verse four. So he's going to list these blessings. Praise God, Paul says. He starts
blessing God. Bless God. Bless God. Lord, teach me to praise Thee.
Teach me to bless God in everything, because He is God, because He's
the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, because He's blessed us with
all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in heavenly things, in
Christ. Now, we're chosen in Christ,
according as He hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation
of the world. Now, let a preacher. It's sad. It's sad, but let a preacher
announce his subject, eternal election. And men began to chafe
and they began to object. They began to set up their opposition. Well, why preach upon such a
questionable and controversial and profound subject? Well, I'll
give you the best reason why preachers ought to preach on
election. I'll tell you the best reason. the best reason known
to man, because it's in God's Word. That's the best reason
I know. The reason I preach you must
be born again is because it's in God's Word. The reason I preach
the cross, the reason I preach the resurrection, the reason
I preach all that I preach is because it's God's Word. And
we're not to leave out God's Word, something that's in God's
Word. And he says here plainly, Paul
starting out, blessing God, he said, He blessed us according
as He chose us. He chose us in Christ. He blessed
us according as He chose us. Now watch this word. You know,
we go down to the store. And we I was kidding Becky last
night Becky and Bob got a present from from Mexico Missionaries
sent them a wedding gift and it was a beautiful Beautiful
wedding gift and and I turned it up looked on the bottom. I
said made in Japan Well, they didn't appreciate that a bit
Mexico was on the bottom But you know you go down the store
and you see so many things may everything made in Japan Made
in Japan when I watch this right here Every blessing that God
Almighty sends is stamped with his eternal electing love. Every
blessing. I'll show you that in the Scripture.
All of the grace of salvation, all of the glory of heaven comes
to us because he chose us. It's in accordance with God's
eternal choice. He said, God hath blessed us
with all spiritual blessings according as he chose us. It's
in accordance with his electing love. That's what I'm saying.
God has blessed me according as he had chosen me. There's
not a single blessing that comes from the hand of God Almighty
that's not stamped with his elective grace. Every blessing, I don't
care what it is, we were chosen to receive each mercy. If you
won't have God's election, you won't have God's blessings because
they're tied together. They come because of his choice
and in accordance with his choice, and they prove his choice. Let
me show you that. I don't want you to turn to all
these, but if you want to, jot them down. This one right here
says, in Ephesians 1-4, according as he had chosen us before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy. He chose us
that we should be holy. You see that? Being holy is a
result of what? His choice. He chose us that
we should be holy. And then over in 1 Corinthians
1, 26 and 29 through 29, God had chosen the foolish, God had
chosen the weak, God had chosen the base, God had chosen the
despised, that no flesh should glory in his presence. No flesh
is going to glory in God's presence. God is going to get all the glory
because he chose it. Because he chose it. Acts 22.14,
Ananias came to Saul of Tarsus and said, Saul, the God of our
fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will.
that thou shouldest see the just one, and that thou shouldest
be his witness. You're going to be his witness.
You're going to see the just one. You're going to know his
will, because he chose you to do it. In James 1.18, of his
own will began he us, that we should be a kind of first fruits
of his creatures. Ephesians 1.11 says he predestinated
us unto the adoption of children, that we should be to the praise
of his glory. Every blessing is stamped with
God's electing law. He blessed us according as he
chose us. I don't know who the elect are.
I don't have the faintest idea who they are. God knows. God knows. Scripture tells us
Christ knew from the beginning who would believe on him, who
would betray him. God knows who they are. God gave
them to Christ. I don't know who they are. And
they don't know who they are, but they will know who they are
when they hear his word. For he said, My sheep hear my
voice, and they follow me, and I give them eternal life. And
I'm going to know who they are, because Paul says, Brethren,
I know your election, because the word of God didn't come to
you in word only, but in power, in the Holy Ghost, and in much
assurance. So we're chosen in Christ. Now look at verse 6. to the praise
of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in Christ."
Accepted means to look upon with approval. Now, you stop and think
what this means. To look upon with approval. To
look upon with divine favor. Now, you stop and think about
this a moment. You can't even look upon each
other with complete approval. You can't even look upon your
fondest child, much as you love them, with complete approval. But when we are accepted, accepted
of God, God can only, God can't do anything halfway. He's an
infinite God who does whatever he does infinitely. And when
we are accepted of God, we are received into his favor. We're
received into his communion. We're received into his presence
with complete divine approval, divine delight, and divine favor. Now you think about that. We
are accepted. If it weren't for those next
two words, there's no way we could be accepted. We're accepted
in Christ, in the Beloved, in Christ. I can't be accepted in
my righteousness. My righteousnesses are filthy
rags, and so are yours. There's nothing commendable,
divinely commendable, about anything we do. I can't be accepted in
my works. By the works of the flesh, the
deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified. I can't be accepted
in my flesh. In my flesh dwelleth no good
thing. In the flesh no man can please
God. I can't be accepted in ceremony.
God said, I'm sick of your burnt offerings. I'm weary of your
so-called holy assemblies. I'm weary of the burning of your
incense. Don't bring these vain oblations
to me. Don't lift your hands in prayer.
I'm sick of these things. There's only one way that God
can look upon us with divine approval and divine acceptance
and divine delight and divine favor. And that's in Christ. In Christ. Because we are in
Christ, because of His righteousness and His works and His obedience
and His holiness being in Him, we're accepted. You see that? How are we in Christ? Well, we're
in the heart of Christ. Scripture says He loved us. Having
loved His own, He loved them to the end. I love my sheep.
We're in the book of Christ. Our names are written in the
Lamb's book. We're in his book. Thirdly, we're
in the hand of Christ. He said, no man can pluck them
out of my hand. We're in the loins of Christ.
As in Adam we died, in Christ we're made alive. By the disobedience
of Adam, we were made sinners. By the obedience of Christ, we
were made righteous. And as Melchizedek, as Abraham paid
tithes to Melchizedek, Isaac, who was in his loins, received
credit for it. And even so, as Christ perfectly
obeyed God's holy law, we who were in his heart, in his hand,
in his book, in his loins, received credit for everything he did.
And we're in the person of Christ. We're baptized into the body
of Jesus Christ by one Spirit. If we keep on, we'll find something
for which to bless God, won't we? Bless God because He's God.
Bless God because He's the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Bless
God because He has blessed us according as He chose us. And
according as he accepted us in the Beloved. And that releases
the hand of God to bless you. That lets God be just and justified. That lets God be righteous and
merciful. He can bless you not in yourself,
but he can bless you in Christ. He can't accept you as you are
in yourself, in your filthy rags, but he can accept you in Christ.
Now look at verse 7. In whom we have redemption. All
right? Number one, we're chosen in Christ.
We're accepted in Christ. And we have redemption in Christ,
in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins. David cried, my sins are ever
before me. And I pity, pity, pity the man
or woman who can't say that. I pity the person who cannot
say with David, my sins are ever before me, who cannot say with
Paul, O wretched man that I am, who cannot say with Peter, O
Lord, I'm a sinful man. Thank God your sins are before
you. If you were the person who said, I have no sin, you'd be
a liar. You'd be a deceived man. You'd be making God a liar. Thank
God you are aware of your sins. Thank God you are convicted of
your sins. Thank God you are grieved over
your sins. Mourn the day when you don't
mourn over them. But thank God my sins are not
before God, they're before me. But David didn't say my sins
are before God. He says my sins are ever before
me. But I say unto you they're not
before God, for in Christ we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins. The blood of Jesus Christ God's
Son cleanseth us from all sin. He bore our sins in his body
on the tree and separated them from us as far as the east is
from the west. Here are four things about our
sins that ought to encourage us. It's what the Bible says
about our sins. Where are my sins? Well, number
one, they separated me from me as far as the east is from the
west. Now, I know the world is round. And if you left here this
point and sailed east, sailed east and went all the way around,
you'd come back here. But now, if you were to go straight
in a straight line east, you'd never reach the west. There's
no way that you'd reach the west. The farther east you went, the
farther from the west you'd be. And that's the way our sins are
separated from us, as far as the east is from the west. Infinity. That's how far God
has separated my sins. They don't exist. They're so
far away from me, so far removed from me, that they keep getting
farther away because of Christ. Here's another thing the Scripture
says. Our sins are cast into the depths of the sea. I was on a ship during World
War II. Our garbage was put back on what
we call the fantail, back on the back of the ship, stern of
the ship, and the cooks would go out in the evening and they'd
dump that garbage over the side. Now, it's hard to explain to
someone the vastness of the Pacific Ocean who's never been on it.
It is, it's vast. You just sail for days and days
and days and days and days and days and never reach any place.
And it's deep. It's so deep. Well now, when
we dumped that garbage off the fantail of that ship, it was
goodbye garbage. Now there's no way, there's no
way that that garbage would ever be heard from again. because
it sank to the deepest, deepest, deepest, deepest plate, miles
down into the depths of the sea. And that's what God says about
our sins. Not only have I separated them from you as far as the east
is from the west, but I've cast them into the depths of the sea.
And then notice this. God says, I have put your sins
behind my back, Isaiah 38, 17, behind God's back? How in the
world can anything be behind God's back because God's everywhere?
God is ever-present, omnipresent, God is everywhere. So that means
if God has put our sins behind His back, they're just nowhere.
They cease to exist because God Almighty has no back. And then
God says, I'll put them out of my mind. I'll remember them no
more. How can God forget anything?
God never learns anything. He knows all things. He never
forgets anything because He's God. But He says, I'll remember
your sin no more. That means they don't even exist. We've been justified since Christ
took our sins, since they were laid on Him, and He paid for
them. They don't even exist. That's
what the scripture says. That's the reason we bless God,
praise God, from whom all spiritual blessings flow. We're so wrapped
up in materialism. I'm not talking about you, I'm
talking about all of us. We measure things, we measure
our blessings by by material standards, don't we? We shouldn't,
but we do. And these things are here and
gone, here and gone. But the measure of our blessings
is by heavenly things. You just think. I've got no sins. Now, if you can find the point
where East meets West in infinity, that's where my sins are. Well,
there ain't no such place, preacher, that I've got no sins. If you
can find God's back, you can find my sins. That's where they
are. But God has no back. Well, I've got no sin. Now, if
you can find a point where God can forget, you can find my sin,
that's where they are. But God can't forget. Then that
means God never even knew them. In Christ, they're put away. All right, notice in verse 10.
Now, I've got to move along. that in the dispensation of time,
the fullness of time, that it's dispensation of the fullness
of time. Now God, though with God there is no time, God is
eternal, yes, ever-present, no past, present, and future with
God, yet, yet God has a time for all that he does. The scripture
clearly tells us, in the fullness of time, God sent forth his Son, a place on our calendar. place
in our time schedule. There was a certain day he created
the world. There was a certain time he sent
his son. Also Paul said, when it pleased
God who separated me from my mother's womb to reveal his son
to me. There was a time when God revealed Christ to me. I
struggled along in darkness, you did too. for how many years? Till God's appointed time. Paul
was about 40 when God revealed Christ to him. Some of you were
30, some of you were 20, some of you were 12. I don't know
that, but it's in God's own time. He'll reveal Christ when it pleases
him. When it pleased God, who chose me in eternity. When it
pleased God who blessed me with all spiritual blessings in Christ,
when it pleased God who put away my sins at the cross, when it
pleased God by His Spirit, one day He revealed His Son to me. He revealed the source of all
blessings. He revealed the object of all
faith. He revealed the crowning jewel
of heaven. He revealed the point of leverage
on which He'll move this whole universe, Christ. He revealed
a person. Now some people follow churches
and follow preachers and follow doctrines and follow their own
consciences and all these things, but those who know God follow
Christ. They know it's all in Him. And there was a day when
God revealed that to them. And if you're one of his own,
there's a day he'll reveal it to you. If you're not one of
his own, you'll never know it. Like the Jews in John 10 said,
if you be the Christ, tell us plainly. He said, I told you
plainly, and you didn't believe me. You didn't believe me because
you're not of my sheep. My sheep will hear my voice.
There'll be a day when God will reveal to every one of his sheep
who Christ is, where he came from, why he came, what he did,
why he did it, where he is now. And they'll see that everything's
in Christ. Elections in Christ. Redemptions in Christ. Acceptances
in Christ. Spiritual blessings are in Christ.
Life is in Christ. Heaven's in Christ. Salvation's
in Christ. Everything's in Him. And God'll
reveal that there's a day when He... And then there's a day
when God's gonna gather together everything in Christ. Look, in
the dispensation of the fullness of times, He might gather together
in one. all things in Christ, which are
in heaven and which are on this earth. Elect angels and elect
men. One of these days, one of these
days, he's going to gather together all things in Christ, all of
creation. Scripture says, by Christ, for
Christ, in Christ, through Christ, where all things meet. All the
promises and blessings in him are all the promises of God,
yea and amen. They're in Christ. He's going
to gather all of creation and all of the promises and all of
the blessings and all of the Old Testament saints and all
of the New Testament saints and all of the Reformation believers
and all the modern believers, all the future believers, all
elect angels and all elect men are going to be gathered in one
in Christ. God's gonna gather them together.
Even, look at that line, even in him. Even in him. Look at that verse again. In
the fullness of time, one of these days, God is gonna gather
together in one all things in Christ. Now if you're not in
Christ, you're gonna be left out of that. All things which
are in heaven, and which are on the earth, even in him." Everything's
going to be brought together, every person under one head,
that he might receive all the glory. That he might receive
all the glory. Verse 11, "...in whom we have
obtained an inheritance." Paul talked about our inheritance
in Romans 8, 17. He said we're heirs of God. and
joint heirs of Jesus Christ. This is so hard, and I know it's
difficult, for us in our poverty. It's so hard for us in our poverty
to comprehend all that we have in Christ. For all that Christ
is, I am already. He's already given me that. I
haven't entered into it, I haven't possessed the land, but it's
already mine. All that Christ has is mine.
His eternal union with us gives us an eternal union with the
Father. He said, I go to my Father and your Father. When you pray,
say, Our Father. All things are yours. Paul said
that twice. That scripture I read in 1 Corinthians
3. All things are yours. And yours, you're Christ's, and
Christ is God's. The riches of his grace is ours. already ours. And one of these
days being, look at verse 11, being predestinated according
to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel
of his own sovereign will, I'm going to enter into that inheritance.
But I got to die first. I got to finish this course.
Paul said, the time of my departure to enter into my Inheritance
to enter into Christ's glory. The time of my departure is at
hand. I've finished my course. I've got to finish my course.
I've got to fight the fight of faith. I've got to keep the faith.
And then there's laid up for me this inheritance, this crown
of glory, this crown of life, this eternal rest, this perfect
conformity to Christ is mine when I take that step. There
is a land of pure delight. Paul went there one time and
he said, I came back, but it wasn't possible for me to tell
you what I saw and what I heard. He said, I saw things it wasn't
possible to utter. No human language is too poor
to describe it. There's no way I can describe
it because, Paul says, there's nothing to which I can compare
it. But there is a land of pure delight. where saints' immortal
reign, infinite day excludes the night and pleasures banish
pain. There everlasting spring abides
and never-withering flowers, but death, like a narrow sea,
divides that heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond that
swelling flood stand dressed in living green. So to the Jews
old Canaan stood, but Jordan rolled between. What fearful
mortals we are who start and shrink to cross this narrow sea,
and we linger shivering on the brink in fear to launch away. Oh, could we make these doubts
remove? these gloomy doubts that rise,
and we could see that land we love with unbeclouded eyes, could
we but climb where Moses stood and view the landscape, or not
Jordan's stream nor death's cold flood could fight us from that
shore. We could just see, but it's there,
and it's yours, all things are yours in Christ. in Christ. All things are yours. Bless God,
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with
all spiritual blessing in Christ, according as he chose us in Christ,
accepted us in Christ, redeemed us in Christ, called us in Christ,
made us heirs in Christ. And some of these days he's going
to gather not all church members, not all religious people, He's
going to gather all things together in Christ, all things in Christ. And that inheritance, which he
predestinated according to the good pleasure of his will, is
then going to be theirs in Christ, vested in him. He's already gone
and possessed it, and it's mine in him. Tonight I'm going to
speak on the believer's biography. We're going to take Ephesians
2, the second chapter, and look at the first few verses. Let's
bow for prayer. Father, we thank Thee, thank
Thee, praise Thee, are filled with gratitude and love to Thee
for Thy mercy in Christ. Undeserving, hell-deserving,
ill-deserving creatures we are. And yet we can't explain that
everlasting love with which Thou hast drawn us and singled us
out and separated us, that love Thou hast put upon us in Christ
our Lord, chose us in Christ, loved us in Christ, accepted
us in Christ, redeemed us in Christ. And some of these days,
because of our union with Him, we're going to be gathered together
with him and all who know him and love him and throughout eternal
ages our song shall be blessed be the lamb of god who loved
us and gave himself for us in his name we pray for his glory
we praise thy name and worship thee amen

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